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More to reading images:Motivations underlying horizontal and vertical time-related graphics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article describes major motivations underlying the designs of Western, multimodal horizontal and vertical time-related graphics. The work is important as it contributes to a meta-language of design; it demonstrates that the designs of time-related ...
Mitchell, Marilyn
core   +1 more source

Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of Categoricity

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
wiley   +1 more source

‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
wiley   +1 more source

Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

HUBUNGAN MUSLIM DENGAN NON-MUSLIM PERSPEKTIF ULAMA BUGIS

open access: yesAl-Tahrir, 2014
Qur’anic exegeses have many variants in terms of sources, methods and languages. Some Qur’anic exegeses using tah}li>li> or mawd}u>’>i method are even written in a local language.
Muhammad Yusuf
doaj  

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